Newton Lacy Pierce Prize for Astronomy
The Newton Lacy Pierce Prize for Astronomy is awarded annually by the American Astronomical Society to one of the young North American astronomers aged up to 36 years for outstanding achievements in observational astronomy. The award is named after the American astronomer Newton Lacy Pierce (1905–1950).
Award winners
- 1974 Edwin M. Kellogg
- 1975 Eric Becklin
- 1976 James Roger Angel
- 1977 Donald NB Hall
- 1978 James M. Moran, Jr.
- 1979 D. Harper
- 1980 Jack Baldwin
- 1981 Bruce Margon
- 1982 Marc Davis
- 1983 Alan Dressler
- 1984 Marc Aaronson , Jeremy R. Mold
- 1985 Richard G. Kron
- 1986 Reinhard Genzel
- 1987 Donald E. Winget
- 1988 Sallie L. Baliunas
- 1989 Harriet L. Dinerstein
- 1990 Kristen Sellgren
- 1991 Kenneth G. Libbrecht
- 1992 Alexei Filippenko
- 1993 Arlin PS Crotts
- 1994 Not awarded
- 1995 Andrew McWilliam
- 1996 Michael Strauss
- 1997 Alyssa A. Goodman
- 1998 Andrea Ghez
- 1999 Dennis F. Zaritsky
- 2000 Kirpal Nandra
- 2001 Kenneth R. Sembach
- 2002 Amy Barger
- 2003 Xiaohui fan
- 2004 Niel Brandt
- 2005 Andrew Blain
- 2006 Bryan Gaensler
- 2007 Not awarded
- 2008 Lisa Kewley
- 2009 Joshua Bloom
- 2010 Tommaso Treu
- 2011 Gaspar Bakos
- 2012 John A. Johnson
- 2013 Jason Kalirai
- 2014 Nadia L. Zakamska
- 2015 Heather A. Knutson
- 2016 Karin Öberg
- 2017 Evan Kirby
- 2018 Caitlin Casey
- 2019 Daniel R. Weisz
- 2020 Emily Levesque